His publicist confirms, “Willie is fine or as he puts it in a song, ’I woke up still not dead again today.'”

The lyrics are from “Still Not Dead,” a song Nelson co-wrote with Buddy Cannon for his latest album God’s Problem Child, which was released in April the day before his 84th birthday. They began writing the song a couple years ago following another flurry of death rumors and hoaxes that have followed the country icon in recent years.

“[Willie] and I laugh about it,” Cannon told CMT.com in April. “What can you do? People just say stuff. Maybe somebody heard a rumor that he got sick. Everybody gets sick. Earlier this year, it was rumored that he was on the edge of death. I was talking to him the whole time and he was sick. But he just had this bronchitis.”